Baurusuchidae

Baurusuchidae is a Gondwanan family of mesoeucrocodylians that lived during the Late Cretaceous. It is a group of terrestrial hypercarnivorous crocodilians from South America and Asia (Pakistan). Baurusuchidae has been, in accordance with the PhyloCode, officially defined as the least inclusive clade containing Cynodontosuchus rothi, Pissarrachampsa sera, and Baurusuchus pachecoi. Baurusuchids have been placed in the suborder Baurusuchia, and two subfamilies have been proposed: Baurusuchinae and Pissarrachampsinae.

Baurusuchidae

Marco Aurélio Esparz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BaurusuchiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 24 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 23 of 24 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 24 occurrencesPaleocene101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–84 Mya — about 3 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya66 Mya101.3 Mya60.9 Mya

24 occurrences of Baurusuchidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

24 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

5 formations

Adamantina — 20.57°S, 50.47°WAdamantina — 20.34°S, 50.55°WAdamantina — 19.34°S, 49.92°WAdamantina — 19.51°S, 50.11°WAdamantina — 21.57°S, 51.35°WAdamantina — 21.30°S, 48.48°WAdamantina — 20.35°S, 49.28°WAdamantina — 20.28°S, 50.25°WBajo de la Carpa — 38.95°S, 68.23°WBajo de la Carpa — 39.00°S, 68.00°WBajo de la Carpa — 39.12°S, 67.63°WEchkar — 17.93°N, 5.62°ESanta Lucía — 17.98°S, 65.60°WUberaba — 19.78°S, 47.91°W

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The named rock units Baurusuchidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Baurusuchidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Baurusuchidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

52 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Baurusuchidae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

23 references

Each of the 24 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 11 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Baurusuchidae

Credit
Marco Aurélio Esparz
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Baurusuchidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBaurusuchia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Price 1945)